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单词 masser-scourer
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masser-scourern.

Forms: 1500s maser scowrer, 1500s masser scourer.
Origin: Of uncertain origin. Apparently formed within English, by compounding. Etymon: scourer n.2
Etymology: Origin uncertain; apparently < an uncertain first element + scourer n.2; compare privy scourer, attested from late 15th cent. Eng. Dial. Dict. s.v. masser (following Halliwell) notes use of this word in Somerset in the sense ‘privy, jakes’, although there is no supporting evidence for this and it could perhaps simply be inferred from the examples below.
Obsolete. rare.
A scavenger; a street-cleaner.
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?1518 Cocke Lorelles Bote sig. Bjv Than came a gonge fermourer Other wyse called a masser scourer.
1540 in Hist. MSS Comm.: MSS Duke of Rutland (1905) IV. 309 in Parl. Papers (Cd. 2606) LXIII. 301 Maser scowrer.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2000; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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